Prince Harry has lost his London privacy case against the publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday in London’s High Court.
The civil case against Associated Newspapers Ltd. for allegedly unlawful information gathering saw the High Court judge on Tuesday morning rule against the Duke of Sussex and six other claimants, including Elton John and husband David Furnish, actors Elizabeth Hurley and Sadie Frost.
In his judgement, Justice Nicklin said the allegations against the Daily Mail publisher required more evidence to be proven in the civil case. All claims against Associated Newspapers were dismissed by the High Court judge.
Prince Harry and fellow claimants alleged “grave breaches of privacy” and more illegalities, including the interception of voicemails, tapping of landlines, paying off police officers “with corrupt links to private investigators,” faking medical records, and bugging celebrity homes by the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday.
Publisher Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) denied what it called “lurid” and “preposterous” allegations, maintaining that the lawsuit was an affront to the hard work of their journalists. Prince Harry traveled from his home in California to London to hear the High Court judgement, before attending events around his upcoming Invictus Games.
Prince Harry has had success in other privacy cases. In January 2025, Harry settled his case against the publisher of the Rupert Murdoch-owned The Sun newspaper, who offered the Duke a “full and unequivocal” apology.
He brought the case to publisher NGN, claiming his privacy had been violated by alleged phone hacking and unlawful information gathering carried out by journalists and private investigators working for The Sun and the defunct News of the World between 1996 and 2011.
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